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msk Sets BO'SjBWBS ... RECONCILED typewriter heiress Gamble Benedict Poium boanu ana ner estranged nusuana, Anurei, nave reconciled in Zurich. Switzerland, their lawyers have announced, and have gone on a second honeymoon. (UPI) Grants Pass Council Presented Petition Requesting Inquiry CHAN IS PASS the Giants Pass City Council last night was presented a petition bearing approximately 2.0(H) signatures lortn specific recommends requesting that an inquiry be . tions" regarding "administra m a d e into city personnel lion of the city's personnel pro practices. I gram." Circulation of the petition , It is reported to have no con came about alter the recent i nection with the controversy dismissal of Capt. John Smith j over Capt. Smith. Money for from the local police depart-' the study was budgeted last ment. Bui it did not ask for May. and the contract for the Smith's reinstatement. j study was negotiated in Novom- A second group of petitions, j ber. Capt. Smith was not dis- with about 40 signatures, was presented by persons expressing support for the dismissal of Smith and the city council's al titude in the matter, the conn cil. at a special meeting lasl last ! Friday, passed a resolution which described the dismissal as "justified." What will happen ncsl as a result of the petitions which were presented last night was unclear. Study Being Made City Councilmen and other city officials told members of the audience llial the local serv ices division of the State Civil Service Commisison is making a study regarding city em ployes. Limited Skiing May Start on Ashland ASHLAND - Some type of limited skiing may start al Hie Mt. Ashland Ski Area shortly, it was learned today. The main T-bar lift equip ment at the area will be tested tomorrow by the State Indus trial Accident Commission, the regional foresl service engineer j and an engineer from the t G. ; Constam Company, manufactur- cr of the lift. After tests have been com pleted, it is expected that some : type of limited skiing opera tions will be announced shortly, according to Alex Murphy, man ager of the Mt. Ashland Corpora- lion. The development is subject 10 "P?'J'.1e (rl; ice ot public use ot loiman Creek Road to reach the area, however, he added. The main road now being con structed into Hie area is not expected to be ready for use until at leasl Jan. 10. CAPE KENNEDY (UPD The 5.000-mile flight of an ad vanced M I n u t e m a n ICBM Wednesday night was the fourth successful firing of America's mighty long-range rockets with in 21 hours. SVrWjBRBS VIMS PROM J JOHNSON SIGNS MANPOWER TRAINING ACT WASHINGTON (L'PII President Johnson loday approved a hill establishing now programs In train unskilled youths and unschooled adults as pari of the fight againsl uncmploi ment. The President signed legislation amending the Manpower Training Act nf 12 lo pour o27 million in now federal spending inin new joli (raining courses. FIRST WEST BERI.INERS CROSS W ALL BERLIN (CPU The first Wesl Brrliners to cross the Com - mtinisl atiti-relugee wall since its erection 28 months ago went into East Berlin today on Christmas holiday visits. SUPREME SOVIET APPROVES BUDGET MOSCOW (1111 The Supreme Soslet today ipprnvrd Tremirr Nikita fi. Khrushchev's budget and economic plans lor the next two years, wnicn are nroduclion. solving the farm come and homing lor the Soviet HEARINGS SET ON CIVIL RIGHTS BILL WASHINGTON (CPU Chairman Howard W. Smith. Ulidw pressure fron lh W hitr House and librrai airnibrrs of Congress, hit ,nmn'ti kt fll M4 IImw Aaltt lMUitifc btumw jb, 1) on iht coll l iglns II mis sludv. however, is a no- sition classification and salary survey" designed also to bring missed until early December. Thus it was uncertain whether the Civil Service Commission i study would satisfy the petilion- j ers seeking an inquiry into city personnel practices. Statements. Discussion Much of last night's council meeting was taken up by state ments from persons in the audi ence regarding the Capt. Smith dismissal and by discussion be tween Mayor Robert Martin and members of the council. A majority of those who spoke voiced support for the cily council, for City Manager Roy Eames and for Police Chief Phil Averill, who dismissed Smith. A number of former city councilmen and a former mayor were among this group. But the statements and dis cussion appeared to accomplish little, other than to underscore the complexity of the political situation in Grants Pass. Sev eral conclusions which were evi dent included Hie following: Reiterates Refusal There is a definite schism between the mayor and all but one of the councilmen. Mayor Martin last night termed Fri day's special meeting, at which limn thn .nlnr.il nsttnrl llin v 0 cf.confidcnce rcsolu,i0n ..(.owardly-. and shabby." tpitprallJ tha. h. had ' fused to call thai meeting. : Three members of the council call it. One councilman, Roland j Stearns, last night voiced sup port for the mayor's remarks, even though he had voted in favor of the Smith resolution on "U.C mayoTiorh, sta i lilt III. Any effort to reinstate Capt. Smith has apparently subsided. Mayor Martin, although critical of ihe council, said he thought the dismissal of Smith was strictly a police department matter. Persons on both sides of the controversy feel that Chief Aver ill is an innocent victim of un fortunate circumstances. Sever al suggested last night that "the entire City of Grants Pass owes the Averill family an apology AROUND THI OlOU aimea at increasing inousirtai crisis, and providing more In- peoilc Senate Rejects Attempt To Trim Foreign Aid Bill Adjournment Possible Friday WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Senate today rejected attempts to trim Us $3.3 billion foreign aid money bill and moved to ward a final vote on the meas ure late today and possible ad journment Friday. The Senate first rejected 55 to 28 an amendment by Sen. Wayne L. Morse, D-Ore to cut $80 million from "supporting assistance," which backs up military aid. Another Slash Beaten It then voted down 53 to 34 a follow-up move to slash $30 million from the same item. The Senate Appropriations Com mittee recommended $380 mil lion for supporting assistance and the House voted only $300 million the figure Morse sought. The aid bill, which provides actual funds for another year of economic and military assist ance, still must go to a House Senate conference committee for final compromise to be worked out. The $3.3 billion Senate total is $500 million more than the $2.8 billion voted by Ihe House. Eye Friday Adjournment Congressional leaders still were hoping for adjournment by Friday night. The Senate nict three hours early to move ahead on the aid bill. Morse's proposed cut in sup porting assistance went down after short but heated debate. The Oregon Democrat charged that the money was be ing wasted on "indigenous armies" such as those of Na tionalist China on Taiwan (For mosa) and in South Korea. "Ynu could lick most of them with ten Bov Scout trooos." Morse declared. "It is a false assumption that such armies' are any good." But Sen. Frank J. Lausche, D-Ohio, contended that "a cut here is to cut at a place where it is most unjustified." Sen. John O. Pastore, D-R.L, floor manager for the bill, said it would be "chaotic" and a "crying shame" to trim the supporting assistance fund. Grants Pass To Call For Bids on Sewer GRANTS PASS The Grants Pass City Council will call ta bids, probably during January, on construction of a sewer sys tem for an area within the city south of Ihe Rogue River. An engineering report on the project was presented by rep resentatives of Cornell, How land, Hayes and Merryfield, Corvallis engineering firm, at a meeting of the city council Wednesday night. There are three proposed sec lions in the sewer system. Schedule A would serve sever al hundred acres within the cily. Schedules B and C would serve several hundred addition al acres outside the city lim its. Councilmen agreed informal ly that work on Schedule A should proceed, with an eye toward advertising for bids in SVU7 Mer 'ko Eames suggested that the fcasi bility of financing construction of the other two links also be considered. In other action at the Wed nesday meeting, the council volcd to retain the landscaping consultant services of Mitchell and McArthur to proceed with park development plans within the city. High on the priority list of future park improvements are j ,he road systcm wjth idvcrsidc City Park and tne development I of Croxton Memorial Cemetery. j Soviet Militiamen Manhandle Ghanaians ; MOSCOW (UPI) - Soviet mil itiamen guarding the Ghanaian Embassy todav shoved several African students back into the snow when they tried to force their way into the building A group of 30 Ghanaian stu dents had tried to enter the em bassy in search of more infor mation on the death of fellow student Edmund Asarre - Addo. trhnA VwK ua found frozen j m ,he snow alonBside a railroad , trac( north of Moscow last Tnursday. llis ,jrath had caused a dem- ionstratinn in Red Square , Wednesdav, in which an esti- maied 400 Ghanaian students paraded with banners protesting alleged Soviet mistreatment of Africans II tPOUT DENIED PORTLAND (LTD - Robert W'ebb, publisher of the Portland .Reporter, denied Wednesday a 'ri-Oo broadcast report Dial the W(Bcr's yie was mini oeni tase for Regional Edition Medford 44 Poges Four Sections Three Arrested For Extortion AttemptCharge Allan F. Perrv, manager of the Medford Branch of the U. S. National Bank, was threatened with extortion Wednesday morn ing, and early lasl night three suspects were arrested by city police, ending a manhunt in which city, county, state and federal officers and the U. S. Treasury Department had par ticipated. Arrested were Walter Dale Bella, 10. Hotel Grand, Medford; Steven Joseph Paradiso, 18, of 335 '.b W. Second St., Medford; and Robert Gray, 19, of 616 W. 11th St., Medford. Each is charged with attempt ed extortion. Bella and Gray were lodged in Jackson County jail and Paradisu is confined to city jail. This morning Bella and Para diso had signed statements ad mitting the extortion attempt and had implicated Gray, offi cers said. Prominent Valley Physician Dies at Home in Ashland ASHLAND - Dr. Charles Al bert Haines, 67, prominent Ash land physician for many years and an avid sportsman, died un expectedly Wednesday evening at his home, 1407 Tolman Creek Road, Ashland. Dr. Haines established medi cal practice in Ashland in 1025 and continued in his practice there continuously until 1054 when he went into semi-retire ment in Vista, Calif. He re mained there until 1062 when he returned to Ashland to make his home on the Tolman Creek Road property. Born in Kingfisher, Okla., March 12, 1806, Dr. Haines was a student at the University of Kansas. At the beginning of World War I he left the univer sity and enlisted in the Army as a member of the 35th Infan try Division. He served in France and was wounded in the conflict there. Returns to U. S. He returned to the United States and entered Reed College, continuing in school there for a year while recuperating from his war wounds. He later entered the University of Oregon Medi cal School and graduated there in 1H24. He interned at Good Samaritan Hospital before com ing to Ashland. Dr. Haines was married in Portland April 15, 1921, lo Mil dred Zehrung, who survives. Also surviving arc a son, R. Keith Haines, Central Point, and a daughter. Mrs. Kenneth (Cara) Lee Braa, Edmonds, Wash., and eighl grandchildren. He was a member of the Ash land Elks Lodge; the American Legion: Ashland Lodge, AF and AM: Siskiyou Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Malta Comman dary, Knights Templar; llillah Temple of the Shrine and the Jackson County Medical Society. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Ashland Mortuary Chapel with the Masonic Lodge officiating. Committal services will be pri vate. The body will li? in state j at the Ashland Mortuary from noon to 9 p.m. rriday and friends who wish lo pay tribute to Dr Haines may call during those hours. Donations lo the American Heart Association or the Cancer Fund will be accept ed in memory of Dr. Haines. CHRISTMAS SEllSI'jMTBand other RESPIRATORT DISEASES 4f - SHOPPING A I niome The demand (or $5,000 was made by telephone to the bank official with the claim that his wife was being held as a hos tage. It came in two calls, ac cording to Lt. Lylc Perkins of the Medford police. The first call instructed tin banker lo "Listen carefully.'' The conversation continued with "This is no joke. We have your wife as a hostage. Sit at your desk and you will gel another phone call in about one minute." The bank official immediately told an assistant to get on an other line and asked the switch board operator to open the two lines when notified. A few minutes later the sec ond call came through. The op erator interrupted and the tele phone was cut off. Within Ihe next few minutes, however, the same voice returned to the line and the bank official was told: "Put $5,000 in tens and twenties in an envelope and take it to a local restaurant and put it in the trash basket in the men's rest room." Check on .Mrs. Perry The police department call was received at 10:40 a.m. and officers immediately checked and found that Mrs. Perry was not a hostage. She was placed under police protection, hov ever, and guards were retain ed until after the arrest of the suspects. The Federal Bureau of In vestigation, Jackson County Sheriff's officers, the. Oregon State Police and the United States Treasury Department were contacted. Seven and one - half hours later the first two men were arrested about 6 p.m. at Fifth and Front .(reels and al 8:30 p.m., Gray was apprehended. They were taken lo Medford Police station for interrogation. Thought Call Traced When asked why they did not go lo the local restaurant as they planned, one told officers they did not go (here because they thought the telephone call had been traced. Prior to the telephone call received by the bank official, a local television repairman was called to go to the Perry home to repair the television set, according lo the statements given police. The plan originally was lo threaten the bank official with the claim that the repairman in his home would kill him if he did not cooperate. Balla. according to statements to police, said he planned to use the money to visit his fath er during Christmas vacation and to pay some bills. Formal charges were lo be filed against the suspects today and arraignment, officers stat ed, will be arranged later to day, if possible. Pro-Rate Payment System To Be Aired SALEM (UPI) -The contro versial pro-rate payment systcm for drugs, physicians and hos pitals will be studied al Ihe Dec. 27 meeting here of the Stale Public Welfare Commission, Commissioner Andrew Juras said today. A progress report on the mcd- ical aid to the aged program ai ' so will be made. Because of ! budget cutbacks, membership in ! the program has been frozen at I 7.500 and near that number arc now. enrolled. The department said it would not eliminate P pie irom me iiukicjui am-i i 7.500 membership level had been i reached, but benefits would bc'jKT PILOT KILLED reduced if enrollments topped FLASHER. YD. 'UPI) An i that number. I Air Force F-106 jet fighter plane ! The pro-rate payment system i crashed in hilly ranching ler- has drawn many 'protests, par-1 rain near here loday, killing the ticularly from druggists who pilot. ; were added to the program in i r 1 November. l I WEATHER Under tne system, wnen inc ' welfare department docs nol j have enough money to pay all , bills in full, il divides (lie mon ey available. j Closing of Naval j Shipyardi Studied j WASHINGTON (UPI)-A Pen tagon sludy group is going lo explore the possibility of closing ! some of the government's II naval shipyards employing near ly 100.000 persons. MEFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1963 i ' ' ' f-r:t. . i - RUINS lNSl'UCIT.I) Deputy Fire Chief Charles tjumlan and Sandra Hart, 23. check a damaged painting on a gallery wall after a $500,000 (ire which destroyed 35 Picasso McNamara Talks With Leaders in South Viet Nam SAIGON, South Vict Nam (UPI) U.S. Delcnse Secretary Robert McNamara arrived to day for talks with South Viet Nam's military rulers and a round of intensive briefings by top ranking American civilian and military officials. j In a brief statement at Sai-! eon's Tansonhut airport, whore ! his special Air Force KC135 four-engine jet airliner arrived from Paris, the secretary said he had come here lo discuss problems and progress of U.S. military aid to South Viet Nam. Earlier Mrrling Recalled Asked the reason for his two day visit, his first since the Nov. 1 coup d'elal that toppled Ihe regime of former President Ngo Dinh Diem, McNamara said: "some of you will remem ber thai exactly two years ago this week after a NATO meet ing in Paris ... I (lew to Hon olulu (or the first in a series o( discussions of U.S. military aid to Viet Nam. This is an other of those meetings lo dis cuss progress of the program and find out what problems arc involved and how to solve them." Arrives With Top Aides McNamara (lew here with Ar thur Sylvester, assistant secre tary of defense for public af fairs, and William Bundy, as sistanl secretary of defense for international security affairs. He was greeted at planesidc by U.S. Ambassador Henry Ca bot Lodge. Gon. Paul D. llar kins. commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam. and Vietnamese rWrnse minister Ma. cn : Tran Van Don I mil. I AVI flriJMHIHl ram ' tonight .lli1 Oi'iwts Mldav. stiftir l"c anil Miiokr in In' allrs l.iju Inntcllt 33. High 1imI.iv i'l Irnip Hisl'"l rvlrifl.t " lnwrst llHi Moftiliic y I'rti , In in a i" I "dv Hi Our Skies Tonight Xlllurt trillav III i m Millrr t'l 7 : Hi m. 11:111 1 til IIM . !.! Mm, n. ti.iiiKht Hrst uiMftir Innlchl llii- til-ntH. miiiiii. i lirars In hr follow inn tlf M"nl IhMiinh llir kv: tiimnrriiw niflit lh Moon mil appear to hp tnlltiwlni HAtiitn. j JoSiiisoii Tribune Pablo Picasso Art Pieces Destroyed By Fire in DETROIT (UPI) Thirty-five Pablo Picasso art pieces, in cluding two valuable paiulings, were destroyed early loday in a $500,000 fire that swept a downtown building. The Picassos were being shown in a second floor art gal lery. The damage to the collec tion was esimatcd al $150,000. More Ihan 125 firemen and pieces of equipment battled the blaze in Ihe building which housed a furniture slorc along with the art gallery. The fire was brought under control within 50 minutes de spite chilling 17-dcgrec temper atures. There were no serious injuries lo firefighters although several received first aid for culs and abrasions. The paintings by Ihe famed H2-ycar-old Spanish arlist, Pablo Picasso, were being shown in the Arwin Gallery on the sec ond floor of the Robinson Furni Grand Jury Refuses To Indict Students CORVALLIS (UPI) A Ben Ion County grand jury Wednes day refused lo indict three Ore gon Stale University students on charges of stealing furnishing from a sorority house last No vember. The grand jury returned not true bills for Douglas A. Wilson, III, Portland; Robert L. Caulield III. Portland, and George G. Col lins, 111. Dover. Del. Earlier. District Court dis missed similar charges against two others. The five had been accused of burglary of Delta Delta Delia sorority. They said it was a prank lo gel Ihe sorority girls to "put on a function" for their Kappa Sigma fraternity. Second Aftornev Barred i j- u rrom nuuu juiy cibe NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI)-A second attorney was barred from federal court Wednesday in connection with the jury tam pering case of Teamsters Presi dent James R. lloffa. U.S. District Court William E. Miller and Judges Frank Gray Jr. ordered the disbar- bread. ment ol Hurry Heard Jr., a The minimum si.c of letters Lebanon. Tenn., attorney, men- on the label also is set by (ho lioned in a Dec. 6 indictment low. All loitering, except the relurned against '.. T. Osborn ;word "Balloon." must be mini Jr. I mum of 3-16 of an inch if on Meeting 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 234 paintings in Detroit, Mich. The fire damaged a furniture sturc and the. second door gal lery. Total loss in the gallery included 400 painting, ceramics and drawings. (UPI) Detroit ture. Co. building. Damage lo the furniture slorc was estimated at $11111.11(10. Lesler B. Arwin. owner of the Arwin Gallery, said Ihe ruined Picassos included "Man In Front of a Cabin," valued at $36,000, and "Picador," valued al $9,5(10. Arwin said Ihe gallery, built by Robinson .Furniture three months ago for $20,000, is fully insured. The Picasso exhibit came from New York and was lo be shown here until Jan. 4. Local Man Suffers Three Knife Wounds William Pcler Grotlc, 30, of 344 Mac St., Mcdtord was re ported in good condition this morning at Sacred Heart Hos pital where he was taken Wed nesday evening suffering from three knife wounds. Lodged in Ihe Jackson Coun ty jail on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon short ly after 7:30 p.m. was William Willey Branscumb, 43, of a lo cal hotel. According lo Medford Police, Grotte was injured on South Riverside Avenue in front of a local tavern. ' Oregon Bread Labels Due New Look Next Year I SALEM (UPI) - Bread in Oregon will start the new year I with a new look on labels. The balloon bread law passed by the 1963 legislature goes into effect Jan. 1. It sets require ments on bread and advertising. Kennelh Carl of the Slate Ag riculture Department said all bakeries selling bread in Orc- gon arc affected He said most of the bakeries have submitted their new labels for approval .Musi List Weight The law requires that the label have the minimum net weight and the weight size, such as standard loaf, standard large ; loaf, standard extra large loaf, balloon, balloon loot or balloon 'Summit' Talks Would Be Held In February Western Strategy Future Reviewed LONDON (UPI) - Secretary of State Dean Rusk set tho stage today for a "summit" meeting between Prime Minis ter Sir Alec Douglas-Home and President Johnson in February. He conferred with British of ficials on ways to ease tensions with Russia in the wake of a Western Allied decision to let Britain "carry the ball" whila Johnson settles into office. Rusk today reviewed with Douglas-Home future Western strategy on ways to ease East- West tensions mainly through disarmament. Working Luneli Rusk and Home met at a working lunch with Foreign ' Secretory R.A. Butler and other top Anglo American officials. Earlier, Rusk talked for more than two hours at the foreign office with Butler. Authoritative d i p 1 o m a tic sources said the talks concen trated on disarmament and East-West relations. They said other questions also were touched on in a wide - ranging review, but the dominant theme was the need to find ways to improve relations with Moscow. They said the talks were an important preliminary to tho meeting Home will have with Johnson in Washington. Rusk leaves later today for Washington to report to Johnson on his talks. Going lo Geneva Butler plans to attend tlm Geneva disarmament talks when they resume late in .Janu ary, and hopes lo meet Soviet foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko there. The talks clarified Anglo American views, but there was no immcdnate official B r i t Ish confirmation of reports that London and Washington wero I thinking ot ottering the Rus sians a 10 per cent cut in mili Itary budgets. Informed sources said, how- ever,, this was an old proposal which could be revived at any time. Rusk hegan his meetings with a discussion of the Indonesian Malaysian problem with Com monwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys. Fog Dispersed for Mercy Flights Plane Mercy Flights pilots seeded Ihe dense fog which enveloped Medford Wednesday moroing and gained an opening which en abled Ihe air ambulance plane to take oft from the Municipal Airport with two patients. It was the fourth fog seeding by Mercy Flights over the air port litis season and each has been successful and followed by a flight from the airport and a return landing. The Wednesday flight was to Portland and Yakima, Wash. Bill Roberts of the Rogue River National Forest, Prospect, was laken to Yakima for medi cal Ircatmcnt. 11 is the homo cily of his parents. Douglas Burrill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Burrill ot Eagle Point, was taken to Portland, where he is a patient at Good Samaritan Hospital. The flight brought to 1,651 tlm number of patients flown by Mercy Flights since formation of the air ambulance service. SENATE CONFIRMS WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Senate today confirmed the nom ination of Robert B. Roe to ha postmaster al Gaston, Ore. lie. presently is acting postmaster there. the sides or top of a loaf and ' of an inch if on the ends or an attached tag. Capital letters are required for the words "Balloon," "Bal loon Loaf" or "Balloon Bre id." which ever is used on the bal loon loaf. It must be in a con spicuous place on Ihe wrapper, with minimum heights lj inch if on the top or side of Ihe toaf and ' i inch if on the ends of (he loaf. Placard Needed The unwrapped balloon bread loaves displayed (or sale by re tail bakeries musl have a pla card next lo or with the loaves. This placard must have bold faced letters at least one inch in height and be placed where it lis cosily reaa ny customers. Advertising is also affected by Ihe new law. A newspaper or radio advertisement of bread that includes Ihe price, must al so i n c 1 u d o the weight of the loaf. i ) o o 0
